Mike Wheatley
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Aerospike bids to accelerate growth with new funding, open source plan
With a fresh new $20 million funding round in its pocket a new distribution strategy built on open source licensing, database startup Aerospike is bidding to become a major player in a market segment that some people believe will be the future of enterprise database management. Aerospike makes a NoSQL, flash-optimized in-memory database that the ...
Google opens Gmail to developers in bid to replace IMAP
Google has decided to lift the lid on its Gmail service, allowing every man and his dog to write apps that can access your inbox, so long as you agree to let them in. Hailed as a replacement for IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) by some observers, the new Gmail API probably won’t achieve that distinction ...
DataDirect Networks unveils WOS-Bridge cloud tiering platform
DataDirect Networks has made adapted its object storage system so it can use both cloud and on-premise storage arrays as object storage vaults. Its revamped Web Object Scaler Bridge platform, abbreviated as WOS-Bridge, can now support both GPFS and DDN Lustre environments. Back-ends to the object serving as ‘head’ can be the company’s EXAScaler and ...
Google launches Cloud Dataflow pipeline for batch and stream processing
There was plenty of excitement at Google I/O yesterday, and not just because of the brief interruption by a protester calling on Google to “develop a conscience”. While much of the spotlight fell on Android, Google announced a number of new services on its cloud front, including something called Cloud Dataflow that makes it easier ...
The CIA gives AWS the thumbs up, says its safe enough for spooks
In a surprising admission from the Central Intelligence Agency, it’s CIO Doug Wolfe has heaped praise upon Amazon Web Services, saying the agency wants to expand its use of the company’s cloudy tech. Wolfe was speaking at an event in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, where he stated he was sure the CIA had gotten itself ...
Canada decides to treat Bitcoin as ‘money’
Like many countries, Canada has warned its population of the perceived risks posed to investors and the financial system by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Now, in order to try and circumvent these ‘dangers’, the nation in the Great White North has become the first to legislate Bitcoin usage, under the premise that it really IS money. ...
Study says encryption won’t protect you against determined snoops
Analysis of encrypted web traffic can reveal all kinds of sensitive information about a person, including their sexual orientation and medical conditions, claims a new study on the erosion of Internet privacy. The study, titled “I Know Why You Went to the Clinic” shows how it’s possible to identify which websites and pages people have ...
VMware wants to patent real-time chats between humans and servers
VMware has filed for an interesting patent that describes a way to build instant messaging functionality into servers, so system admins can ‘chat’ to them in real-time, reports The Register. The patent, which is dubbed “System And Method for Chatting With Machines,” notes that servers usually rely on emails or SMS messages to report problems to ...
Chicago gets a friendly Big Brother with the Array of Things
Architects and data scientists in Chicago are looking to light up the city this summer with a new form of civic infrastructure – aesthetically pleasing, highly visible boxes mounted onto street lights that are designed to monitor environmental conditions in the city. Before conspiracy theorists’ alarm bells start ringing, note that this is not your ...
Google forks OpenSSL into seriously BoringSSL
As developers continue heir struggles to fix the vulnerabilities within OpenSSL’s crypto library, Google has announced yet another fork of the project based on its own version of the code, amusingly dubbed BoringSSL. Previously, Google added patches on top of each new OpenSSL release, essentially building its own hacked version of OpenSSL for use with ...